Garter-fastener.



Patented Mar. 20, I900.

E. W. PUELLMANN. GARTER FASTENER.

(Application filed Jan. 15, 1900.)

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EDWARD \V. PUELLMANN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- THIRD TO EBERHARD ANHEUSER, OF SAME PLACE.

GAR'TER-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,756, dated March 20, 1900.

' Application filed January 15,1900. Serial No. 1,505. (Ntfmocleh) To all whom, it may cmwcrn:

Be it known that I, EDWARD W. PUELL- MANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garter-Fasteners, of which the following is a specifica- 4 tion.

My invention relates to improvements in garter-fasteners; and it consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts, as

will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my complete invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line a: w of Fig. 2.

The object of my invention is to construct a simple, practical, and durable fastener which is particularly designed for garters, but may also be used for suspenders, bodybelts, and the like, and may be ornamented in any suitable manner, whereby any suitable adjustment is obtained without a free overlapping end, the parts after being adjusted remaining in their adjusted position, the fastener which I employ being constructed in a manner and applied as hereinafter specifically described.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a garter which is composed of an elastic strip of the well-known construction and consists of suitable textile fabric and rubber, and secured to one end of the same is aloop 2, which freely receives the opposite end of said elastic, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the free end of said elastic overlapping the remaining portion thereof .and adapted to cooperate with the fastener 3 in a manner now to be described.

The fastener 3 is adjustable at any position along the length of the elastic l and consists of a single piece of metal, preferably formed from sheet metal stamped or otherwise formed, the width of which corresponds substantially to the width of the elastic 1 or, in other words, freely receives the same.

The fastener 3 consists of a flat medial portion 4, the opposite ends of which are suittic 1, the terminal ends of the plate which forms said fastener being bent again in the opposite direction, as shown at 5, whereby a suitable space 6 is left between the curved portions 7 of the fastener for the insertion of the elastic into the fastener.

As clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the extensions 8, which form a part of the fastener and a reception for the elastic about its folded or overlapping portion of the garter, are inclined, whereby the bent yielding portions 7 are closer to the flat medial portion 4, which construction provides a more efiectvive means or construction for clamping and holding the elastic in its adjusted position when the garter is applied or adjusted upon the person.

In applying the garter the parts are assembled as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings and adjusted, the fastener 3 being moved along the length of the garter or toward the end of the wearer and afterward pass the free end of the elastic through the loop 2 and pass the same back over the remaining portion of the elastic, forcing the free end of said elastic within the space 6, formed between the curved ends 7 of the fastener, until said free end of the elastic lies flat upon the remaining portion of the elastic, after which the fastener 3 may be adjusted or moved toward the free end of the elastic for the purpose previously described.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim is- Aband, comprisinga strip of elastic or other suitable material, a loop securedto one end of the same, and a fastener adjustably located upon said elastic and adapted to receive the free end of the elastic, after the same has been passed through the said loop, and folded back upon the remaining portion of the elastic, said fastener consisting of a single piece of metal having a fiat medial portion, theoppothe said opposite ends of the fastener being 10 site ends of which are bent toward one an inclined toward said medial portion, as and other, leaving a suitable space for the two for the purpose described.

thicknesses of the strip, but separated there- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 5 from, forming a suitable space for the inserin presence of two Witnesses.

tion of the said strip Within the fastener, the EDWARD W. PUELLMANN.

terminal ends of said fastener, being bent in l Witnesses:

the opposite direction, and substantially par- 0. J. ANDERSON,

allel with the medial portion of the same, and O. F. KELLER. 

